Selda

The Duel Sisters teach here in the port. I send my customers to them.

You'll want what they teach if you're going down a cave.

Card games happen on those islands. I've heard the house always wins.

There's a merchant on the Speckle Humps selling curiosities. The margins are steep, I'm told.

The Speckle Humps are trading posts far from here. Boats that land there talk about the prices.

The quay tells stories. Half are true, half are wishing.

I discount everything by half on principle.

A cat island. The sellswords come off it. I've never traded there.

Another cat island, the storytellers' one. Nothing in it for me.

The keeper east on Goodwill fishes off his own gallery. He sells fish, not stones.

Islands in the sky? I believe what I can weight on a scale.

The lighthouse east of here. The cave crews out that way bring me good stones.

A gambling house. Every coin that walks in buys the house, not the players.

Lessons cost money. They're worth it if you're heading down a cave.

Sunny or storm, I only care whether the boats land.

The quay needs hands when boats come in. Look for work with the crews if you want coins.

I know the name. I don't trade in people.

A name I've heard around the eastern waters. That's all.

The quiet of Goodwill Island is something people speak of. I haven't been there.

Stones come from cave floors. The bottom pays, and the bottom kills.

A weapon that matters to someone. That makes it worth something.

A kingdom across the water. What they value isn't what we value.

Sailors whisper about it on the quay. I've heard nothing worth repeating.

A place beyond my trade routes. What happens there stays there.

The quay has stories about that name. I don't repeat them.

An old name from old stories. I trade in things, not legends.

I know her name. We don't trade in the same waters.

Sell a diamond at the general store and they'll hand you pocket change.

They cannot tell a sapphire from a bottle. I can.

Stones come from deep caves. The bottom pays, and the bottom kills.

A king in Victoria. His crown doesn't move the price of stones.

A groomer out on the Creels, I'm told. Nothing I trade in.

Everyone knows about it. I don't trade in such things.

A princess in a distant kingdom. Her title doesn't buy stones.

Another royal name from across the water. It means nothing to the stones.

There are people by that name in the eastern waters. Which one did you mean?